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most citedDimensionality Reduced Training by Pruning and Freezing Parts of a Deep Neural Network, a Survey

25 citations · 43 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

HASTE: A Framework for Training-Free, Dynamic, and Steerable Compression of Pre-Trained Convolutional Neural Networks

Lukas Meiner, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Paul Condurache

Deploying large convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices is challenging due to their high computational cost. While dynamic execution methods are promis…

cs.CV2025

Variance-Based Pruning for Accelerating and Compressing Trained Networks

Uranik Berisha, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Paul Condurache

Increasingly expensive training of ever larger models such as Vision Transfomers motivate reusing the vast library of already trained state-of-the-art networks. However, their late…

cs.CV2025

Efficient Data Driven Mixture-of-Expert Extraction from Trained Networks

Uranik Berisha, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Paul Condurache

Vision Transformers have emerged as the state-of-the-art models in various Computer Vision tasks, but their high computational and resource demands pose significant challenges. Whi…

cs.CV2025

PROM: Prioritize Reduction of Multiplications Over Lower Bit-Widths for Efficient CNNs

Lukas Meiner, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Paul Condurache

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are crucial for computer vision tasks on resource-constrained devices. Quantization effectively compresses these models, reducing storage size…

cs.CV2024

Squeeze-and-Remember Block

Rinor Cakaj, Jens Mehnert, Bin Yang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are important for many machine learning tasks. They are built with different types of layers: convolutional layers that detect features, dropou…

cs.CV2024

Spectral Wavelet Dropout: Regularization in the Wavelet Domain

Rinor Cakaj, Jens Mehnert, Bin Yang

Regularization techniques help prevent overfitting and therefore improve the ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to generalize. One reason for overfitting is the comple…

cs.CV2024

CNN Mixture-of-Depths

Rinor Cakaj, Jens Mehnert, Bin Yang

We introduce Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a novel approach that enhances the computational efficiency of CNNs by selectively processing channel…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Data-Free Dynamic Compression of CNNs for Tractable Efficiency

Lukas Meiner, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Paul Condurache

To reduce the computational cost of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices, structured pruning approaches have shown promise in lowering floating-poin…

cs.CV2023

Spectral Batch Normalization: Normalization in the Frequency Domain

Rinor Cakaj, Jens Mehnert, Bin Yang

Regularization is a set of techniques that are used to improve the generalization ability of deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce spectral batch normalization (SBN), a…

cs.LG2023

Weight Compander: A Simple Weight Reparameterization for Regularization

Rinor Cakaj, Jens Mehnert, Bin Yang

Regularization is a set of techniques that are used to improve the generalization ability of deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce weight compander (WC), a novel effect…

cs.LG2022★ 25 cited

Dimensionality Reduced Training by Pruning and Freezing Parts of a Deep Neural Network, a Survey

Paul Wimmer, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Paul Condurache

State-of-the-art deep learning models have a parameter count that reaches into the billions. Training, storing and transferring such models is energy and time consuming, thus costl…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Interspace Pruning: Using Adaptive Filter Representations to Improve Training of Sparse CNNs

Paul Wimmer, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Paul Condurache

Unstructured pruning is well suited to reduce the memory footprint of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), both at training and inference time. CNNs contain parameters arranged in…

cs.LG2020★ 16 cited

FreezeNet: Full Performance by Reduced Storage Costs

Paul Wimmer, Jens Mehnert, Alexandru Condurache

Pruning generates sparse networks by setting parameters to zero. In this work we improve one-shot pruning methods, applied before training, without adding any additional storage co…